Fence



UNITED STATES PATENT Urrrcn.

JOHN S. ORR, OF AUGUSTA, KENTUCKY.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No: 370,157, datedSeptember 20, 1887.

Application filed June 29, 1887.

T0 (LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN S. ORR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Augusta, in the county of Bracken and State of Kentucky,haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Fences, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in picket or paling fences; and itconsistsin a cer-- tain novel manner of securing the uprights or palingsin place by means of wires, &c., and also in certain other details ofconstruction, as more fully described hereinafter, and specificallypointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a fence constructedaccording to my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail view of a portion of thefence during the process of construction to show the manner of arrangingthe wires. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the fence.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A A designate the posts of thefence, stretched loosely between which at the upper ends are the threewires a a a, and I) b I) are similar wires similarly stretched betweenthe said posts at the lower ends. The said wires are passed around theposts at the ends and secured thereto by the staples c c, driven intothe posts; and D D are the uprights or palings, which are placed betweenthe said wires and secured in place thereby. To place the said uprightsin position, proceed as follows: Place the first paling between thewires, with one wire on one side and two wires on the other, the singlewire being, however, on opposite sides of the paling at the top andbottom thereof, as seen in the drawings, and press the said first palingtightly against the post. Place the second paling between the wires andcarry one of the two wires which were on the same side of the firstpaling around the second paling, thus causing two wires to be on oneside of the second paling and one on the other side, the respectivepositions of the said double and single wires being, however, reversedfrom those on the first paling. This is clearly shown in the drawings.The first paling, E,

is crossed on the near side at the top by one wire and on the oppositeside by two wires, while at the bottom the said paling E is crossed onthe near side by two wires and on the opposite side by one wire. Thesecond paling,

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however, is crossedat the upper end on the near side by two wires and onthe opposite side by one wire, while the bottom, as before described, isreversednamely, one wire on the near side and two on the far side. Inthis manner the entire fence is constructed namely, the double wires arealternately on opposite sides of adjacent palings, and the manner inwhich the wires cross the upper ends of the palings is reversed at thelower ends, except where three sets of tiewires are used, when the wiresat the top and bottom of each paling are arranged in the same way, whilethe set in the center is reversed from the sets at the top and bottom.In this manner both sides of the fence are made exactly alike, andconsequently the strength is the same to resist pressure on either sideof the fence. Different wires, however, are carried around the palingseach timethat is, first the wire a is carried around a paling, and thenthe wire a is carried around the next paling, and then the wire a iscarried around the next paling, and then the wire a is again carriedaround the nextpaling,and so on. Thus it will be seen that as each wirein succession is used to pass around a paling the three wires used willall be the same length, and will come out at the end of the panel even.

The wires at the bottom of the palings, and also at the center, arearranged in exactly the same manner as those at the top of the palings,with the exception that the order is changed to make the wires passaround the same picket or paling in opposite directions, as beforedescribed.

Each paling in succession, after being pressed up tightly against thelast paling placed in position,is secured in the said position by astaple, f, driven into the said paling over the wire.

If boards or light palings are used, the staple is driven into thepaling over the doubled wire, and the ends of the said staple, which project through the paling, are clinched or bent down over the single wire.

It will be seen that after each paling has been pressed tightly againstthe preceding paling and the staples secured in place, as described,thesaid palings will beheld very rigidly in place, and will be capableof resisting a very heavy shock against the side of the fence.

As an additional safeguard against the damupper end to the uppertie-wires of the fence at the other end of the panel from the brace G,and the said brace H is inclined to the line of the fence in the samemanner as the brace G, and secured at the lower end to the peg or pin h,which is driven firmly into the ground. One of the braces H is attachedto the fence on the opposite side thereof from the brace G at the sameend of the panel, and a brace G is secured on the opposite side of thefence from the brace H above described.

The braces H are designed to draw longi-.

tudinally on the fence, and the braces G are designed to resist the saidaction, and thus, as the two different kinds of braces are arrangedalternately on opposite sides of the fence, there will beno possiblechance for any sagging, warping, twisting, or straining of thestructure, either by the weather, the wind, or by 7 animals confined bythe said fence.

' the fence is very rigid.

By arranging the double and single wires alternately on opposite sidesof the same paling at the top and bottom all twisting of the fence isavoided.

I have described the construction of my fence when three tie-wires areused in each group;

but it is obvious that more than three may be used, if desired, thenumber depending entirely on the character of fence to be erected andthe purpose for which it is to be used, the

same arrangement of the wires being possible with any number used. Also,any number of sets of wires may be used, depending only on u the heightof fence desired,v the manner of twining or interlacing the wires aroundthe palings being reversed in the different sets, as hereinbcfore fullydescribed.

Having thus described the construction of my improved fence, what Iclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The combination,in a fence, of the vertical posts A A, wires a a a stretched between thesaid posts at the upper ends thereof, the wires 12 b bi, stretchedbetween the said posts at the lower ends, the palings D, insertedbetween the said wires at the upper and lower ends, the three wiresbeing divided into a, double and a single strand, each of said strandsbeing successively and alternately passed around the adjacent palings,with the wires a a a arranged alternately to the wires 1) b b",substantially as specified.

2. The hereindescribed improvement in fences, comprisin g the posts, thewires stretched between the posts andarrang'ed in groups of three at thetop and bottom of the posts, and the palings D, designed to be insertedthrough the wires,separating the latter into a double and a singlestrand, the double strand being on one side of each paling at the topand the single strand on the other side of the same paling,the wirescrossing each other between the palin gs, and being thus arrangedalternately along the line of the fence, the wires at the bottom of thepalings being arranged opposite to the wires at the top of the palings,as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my ownI have hereto affixedmy signaturein presence of two witnesses.

JOHN S. ORR.

Witnesses:

L. 1?. KNOEDLER, J. W. HARRIs-

